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“It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.”

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Author:Max Planck

“To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.”

“I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."”

“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”

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Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”

“Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”

Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

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Book:Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.”

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

Source: Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives

“What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.”